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by mcrittenden 1803 days ago
For what it's worth, I built something very similar to this and it ran for 7 years until Google shut it down for violating the terms of service. Here's a blog post I wrote with specifics, I case it also applies to your service. https://critter.blog/2020/08/04/a-farewell-to-toogles/
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I think the difference here is that Piped is using a custom backend server (piped-backend) which scrapes youtube html to obtain the video content/metadata (a-la invidious), while your app was using the youtube API. Google is allowed to shut your app down, but AFAIK can't police who can and can't consume their publicly available HTML.
Oh, they definitely try to shut down these products by constantly changing the page structure or using javascript to obfuscate things:

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/3951

I remember your project. It was written in AngularJS then to showcase its power. It was a very refreshing demo. Good luck.
My very first thought was "wonder how long before YouTube shuts this down somehow"..

Also, old drupal crew represent

Represent! I only stopped working with Drupal about 6 months ago.